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Chinese Antique Provincial Straw Hat, Painted to the Hat, Chinese Calligraphy. 24 Inches Diameter.

20th century AD. A silver ellipsoid plaque with loop to each end, raised cell, inset carnelian panel with reserved calligraphic text on a pounced field, the lines of text filled with nasta'liq calligraphy. 43.4 grams, 67mm (2 1/2"). From the family collection of a Hampstead gentleman; formerly acquired in the 1980s. Fine condition.

A.R. Penck ( -) STICK FIGURE signed and editioned 34/50 lithograph printed in colours 250 by 130cm SYMBOLS AND NEO-EXPRESSIONISM IN POST-WAR GERMANY Since A.R. Penck’s death in 2017 there has been considerable interest in his artwork. Posthumous solo exhibitions have showcased his bold, restless work, filled with his own self-created symbols. These include A.R. Penck: Paintings from the 1980s and Memorial to an Unknown East German Soldier, both held at the Michael Werner Gallery in New York in 2018, as well as the acclaimed I think in Pictures, a show of Penck’s featured works from the 1970s and 1980s held at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford University in 2019. Penck was born Ralf Winkler in Dresden in 1939. He adopted his chosen pseudonym after the paleogeologist Albrecht Penck out of necessity when the East German State Security began to confiscate his works in the 1960s. His art was deemed not to conform to the ideology of the state. In 1969 the Michel Werner Gallery hosted Penck's first solo show, signalling the beginning of a relationship that would be fortuitous and supportive throughout the artist’s career. Exhibiting in New York was only possible because the artist had changed his name, confusing border officials and allowing his work to pass through the Berlin wall. Michel Werner himself smuggled some of Penck’s artworks out of East Berlin, and arranged for friends in the city to deliver art materials to Penck in order for him to continue his practice.Penck’s Standart works are characterised by a myriad of pictographic marks that the artist viewed as the ‘building blocks’ he used to communicate his ideology, leaving clues and riddles for the viewers of his paintings in this lexicon of coded language. The artist began to explore how symbols, signs and numbers could be abstracted, creating a common language which could express the sadness and loss of post-World War II Germany in the Cold War era. An example is the letters ‘A’ and ‘B’ it is understood that he is referencing the capitalist West Germany and communist East Germany. Due to this aesthetic, Penck is often associated with artists Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, although it is more likely that the artist’s style emerged spontaneously. He had little access to the work of his Western contemporaries whilst living in East Germany (German Democratic Republic) which heavily censored any influence that threatened the state. There has been a resurgence of interest in A.R. Penck’s work in recent years, at a time when contemporary artists are exploring the tenuous relationship of abstraction and figuration, and personal and recognisable iconographies and symbols. This has resulted in his work gaining momentum on the secondary market.His stick figure was Penck's most common motif and is given precedence in the lithograph Stick Figure, which is part of the artist’s well known Standart works, which he produced over a number of decades. The works in this series evoke graffiti art, cave paintings and Asian calligraphy. Here the colourful stick figure takes centre stage in the composition. The character could not be more typical of Penck’s chosen subjects. In the 1980s, when his career began to take off. Penck began exhibiting widely in London and New York and participated in the 1984 Venice Biennale as well as four editions of Documenta.

A CHINESE GREY POTTERY BONSAI PLANTER, QING DYNASTY, LATE 19TH CENTURY The rectangular body raised on bracket feet, the tapering panelled sides decorated with calligraphy, minor chips, discolouration, age wear, calcification 27 cm wide

*Antique Chinese Blue Malachite And Bone Calligraphy Brush [LQD 117]

ARABIC YELLOW METAL CALLIGRAPHY PENDANT,(H. INC. BALE 2.8 CM), 3.7 GRAMS; A YELLOW METAL SEAL FOB ON A GILT METAL ALBERT CHAIN; WHITE METAL NECKLACE AND FILIGREE WORKED PENDANT IN THE FORM OF A SHIELD WITH BOSS, EARRINGS AND RING ENSUITE. ALSO A QUANTITY OF COSTUME JEWELLERY

A Chinese powder blue ground bowl and cover decorated with calligraphy bearing Quanlong markCondition good no cracks chips or restoration, slight wear to gilding

A small Yixing teapot and cover, having incised calligraphy type decoration, with impressed seal mark verso, h.9cm

A concertina album of six pages of Persian couplets in nasta'liq calligraphy on gold-sprinkled paper, dated 1297/1880, 23.2cm. by 14cm., red leather binding.

A rare collection of poetry , Arabic manuscript in verse and prose on paper, 13th century, mainly from the jahiliyya, 187ff. plus 2 fly leaves, each folio with 27ll of small black naskh arranged in one or two columns, important words and phrases in red, first folio preceded by two leaves of later inserted calligraphy, in later brown morocco with stamped medallion, folio 24.2cm. by 17.6cm.

A concertina album of ten Chinese watercolour paintings on paper, 19th/20th century, each painting with figures in a landscape beside rows of calligraphy, each painting 24.5cm. by 20cm., (a.f).

A nasta'liq quatrain, Iran, 19th century or earlier, paper laid on card, four lines of black diagonal script in clouds against a gold ground filled with flowers, the wide margins brightly painted with 19th Qajar illumination with birds and flowers, overall size 32cm. by 20.5cm.; also five pages of calligraphy, on card, each 29.5cm. by 19.5cm. overall size, (6).

A Chinese white jade rectangular pendant, carved on one side with a warrior, the reverse with rows of calligraphy, 5.75cm. high.

Asian scrolls, comprising; a bird on blossom, a scroll with 33 temple seals, a modern Chinese scroll of a bird in a tree, a large calligraphy scroll, Japanese scroll of a bird on blossom, a study of a sword's blade and a rolled manuscript, (7). S2M

Two boxes containing eighteen boxed creative calligraphy sets

Two Islamic begging bowls (Kashkuls), one a tinned, copper example in boat form with a line of Islamic calligraphy to each side, the other a similar smaller brass and painted lacquer example

A LARGER BRONZE KASHKOOL, decorated with engraved calligraphy, 24cm x 14cm

A LARGE 19TH / 20TH CENTURY CHINESE BLUE & WHITE PORCELAIN CALLIGRAPHIC CHARGER MADE FOR THE ISLAMIC MARKET, the body of the charger with scrolling lotus decoration with roundel panels of calligraphy / script, 62cm diameter.

A 19TH / 20TH CENTURY INDO PERSIAN MUGHAL ART HAND PAINTED PICTURE ON PAPER, the picture depicting the scene of a bird drawn in calligraphy, with gilt highlight borders, 26cm x 37cm.28cm high x 39.5cm wide.

A 19TH CENTURY ISLAMIC BRONZE AND SILVER INLAID WINE EWER, with bands of calligraphy and panels of figures, 49cm high x 26.5cm wide.

A PAIR OF 19TH CENTURY CHINESE RHINO HORN & SILVER MEDICINE BOTTLES, each with lids and inlaid with silver chinese calligraphy and decoration, 4.5cm high.

A LARGE AND UNUSUAL SHAPED PERSIAN QAJAR SILVER AND COPPER VASE, decorated with calligraphy upon chased floral ground, 50cm high x 40cm wide.

A GOOD CHINESE REPUBLIC STYLE FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN VASE, the body decorated with a native landscape scene with chinese calligraphy to the upper section, 35cm high.

A GOOD CHINESE HANGING SCROLL PRINT OF A LANDSCAPE, the scroll with a detailed view of a landscape, with calligraphy and many seal marks.

A GOOD 19TH / 20TH CENTURY CHINESE REVERSE PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, the body decorated with two different landscape scenes, one sides with chinese calligraphy, with a hardstone stopper and ivory spoon, 7cm high x 3.5cm Wide.

A LARGER 19TH / 20TH CENTURY INDO PERSIAN MUGHAL ART HAND PAINTED PICTURE ON PAPER, the picture depicting the scene of calligraphy amongst flora, 28cm x 38cm.

A SMALL BRONZE KASHKOOL, decorated with engraved calligraphy, 13.5cm x 7cm.

A RARE 16TH CENTURY YEMANI BRASS SCRIBER'S BOX, with carved calligraphy & decoration, 30.5cm long

A 15TH CENTURY MAMLUK ENGRAVED CALLIGRAPHY BRASS BOWL, 15cm diameter x 7cm high.

AN ORIENTAL UNDERGLAZE-BLUE & CELADON PORCELAIN TRIPOD CENSER, painted with small panels of calligraphy and repeated figures of oni, the base unglazed, 11.4cm diameter & 9.1cm high.

A 19TH / 20TH CENTURY INDO PERSIAN MUGHAL ART HAND PAINTED PICTURE ON PAPER, the picture depicting the scene of a bird drawn in calligraphy, with gilt highlight borders, 23cm x 37cm.

A GOOD 18TH / 19TH CENTURY HAND PAINTED PICTURE OF MECCA ON CANVAS, detailed painting of mecca on canvas, the upper section with calligraphy 66cm x 46cm

A GOOD CHINESE HANGING SCROLL PICTURE, the picture depicting a native rocky landscape, with chinese calligraphy and seals.

AN EARLY QAJAR STEEL DAGGER, the sheath carved with scrolling foliage, the blade with traces of silver inlay and calligraphy, 45cm long

A VERY LARGE 18TH CENTURY OR EARLIER ISLAMIC / PERSIAN CALLIGRAPHIC TRIPLE HANDLE COPPER JAR & COVER, the body with calligraphy and roundel decoration of animals 84cm high x 63cm wide.

A 19TH / 20TH CENTURY INDO PERSIAN MUGHAL ART HAND PAINTED PICTURE ON PAPER, the picture depicting the scene of a seated figure drawn in calligraphy, with gilt highlight borders, 20cm x 32cm.

A GOOD 19TH / 20TH CENTURY CHINESE REVERSE PAINTED GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE, the body decorated with two different scenes, one of two figures interior and to figures exterior, both sides with chinese calligraphy, with a metal mounted coral stopper and ivory spoon,5.5cm high x 3cm Wide.

A FINE 18TH CENTURY OR EARLIER MINIATURE INDIAN PAINTING, of figures and calligraphy, 29cm high x 11.5cm wide.

AN 18TH / 19TH CENTURY FRAMED CHINESE PAINTING ON PAPER - BATTLE SCENE - WAR OF JIN JI MOUNTAIN, the painting depicting a famous war in ancient china, with calligraphy reading" war of jin ji mountain", housed in a black painted bamboo style frame, framed: 126cm x 79cm

A GOOD CHINESE HANGING SCROLL PICTURE OF A HAWK, the picture depicting a hawk seated upon its perch, with chinese calligraphy and seals.

A CHINESE REPUBLICAN PERIOD FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN JAR AND COVER, the body of the jar decorated with scenes of children amongst peach trees, the reverse with Chinese calligraphy, 33.5cm high x 21cm wide.

A GOOD CHINESE MOULDED & RIBBED PORCELAIN MEIPING VASE, the base of the vase with incised chinese calligraphy / signature, 25cm high.

A VERY FINE QUALITY 16TH / 17TH CENTURY SAFAVID CALLIGRAPHIC IRON & GILT DECORATED PIN / PEN BOX, the box decorated with gilt to depict scenes of scrolling flora amongst a panel of calligraphy, with details of animals and figures upon horseback, all sides including the base decorated with gilt, 21.5cm long x 3.5cm wide.

A GOOD ISLAMIC CARVED COCO DE MER KASHKOOL, decorated with carved calligraphy, with a chain link handle, 26cm wide x 14cm wide.

A GOOD CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN PLATE & THREE FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN SPOONS, the plate decorated with swimming koi carp and bearing chinese calligraphy, the base with an iron red six character mark, 21.2cm diameter, the three matching porcelain spoons with floral decoration and butterflies, 14.2cm long.(4)

A GOOD CHINESE QIANLONG / QIANLONG STYLE PORCELAIN WALL HANGING VASE, the body with turquoise splash with gilding, the main panel depicting birds amongst native flora, the upper section with Chinese calligraphy, the reverse with hanging groove and turquoise glaze, the base with a four character iron red qianlong mark, 20.5cm high x 11.4cm wide.

AN ISLAMIC EIGHT-POINTED STAR TILE with stand, the tile with calligraphy, 32cm x 32cm.

A GOOD 19TH / 20TH CENTURY CHINESE CELADON JADE LIKE SNUFF BOTTLE, of rectangular form, the body with chinese calligraphy, with a glued coral stopper, 6.5cm high x 3.5cm wide.

A LARGE 18TH / 19TH CENTURY PERSIAN ENGRAVED TINNED COPPER VASE, with carved and inlaid calligraphy and decoration, 33cm high x 25cm wide.

A GOOD CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN MEIPING VASE, the body with a turquoise ground and decorated to depict birds amongst fruit trees, highlighted with gilt, the verso with chinese calligraphy, the underside with a six character qianlong mark, 20.5cm high.

A VERY GOOD 16TH CENTURY SAFVID STYLE PERSIAN 35 PIECE POTTERY CALLIGRAPHIC TILE SET, the thirty five piece set coming together to depict scenes of figures interior playing musical instruments and eating fruit, further decorated with calligraphy borders around the image and scrolling vine.

A LARGE PERSIAN SAFAVID REVIVAL CALLIGRAPHIC COPPER BOWL, the bowl revived in 1876 ;1294 persia, with panels of calligraphy / script, 18.5cm high x 38.5cm wide.

A LARGE PAIR OF CHINESE 20TH CENTURY CELADON FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN VASES, both vases with twin moulded lion dog head mask handles, both decorated with scenes of birds amongst native flora, each bearing Chinese calligraphy and seal mark, 61cm high.

A GOOD 19TH / 20TH CENTURY CHINESE BRONZE TEMPLE BELL, with decoration in relief and gilded depicting dragons and immortal figures, with carved decoration of chinese calligraphy, 17.5cm high x 12cm diameter.

A CHINESE VASE OF BALUSTER FORM decorated in enamels with birds and flowers and calligraphy (drilled and mounted as a lamp), 57cm high (overall)

TWO BOXES AND LOOSE SUNDRY ORIENTAL ITEMS to include Japanese paintings, embroidery and woolwork, cased calligraphy set, including brushes, books, Japanese and Chinese parasols etc

THREE BOXES OF CERAMICS, SUNDRIES etc, to include a marmalade cutter, a table lamp, a green dial up telephone, cased and loose flatware, Wedgwood 'Clementine' tea wares, Hornsea bowls, jug, etc, Temple jars, jardinieres, Parker pens, calligraphy pens etc

Floral decor with Islamic calligraphy, 28 cm. tall.

Pair of Chinese white glazed vases painted with figures in a garden with blue and white stylised borders and calligraphy, with printed back stamps, 29cm high, (2)